Do it. I dare ya. Keep digging. It’s fun watching the hole get deeper while you disappear into the darkness.
No, no. Dig up, stupid!
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So how does this man being an executive officer not immediately send a company’s stocks into the shitter at this point?
Everyone’s too deep to escape.
Isn’t the Tesla board made up of his buddies?
The CEO is chosen by the board, which is chosen by the shareholders. The shareholders have the ultimate power, if they can unite on a goal/decision. Overwhelmingly, the only thing they can agree on is that they want to make the most money. They often can’t even agree on how to go about that.
So, the board won’t fire him because the shareholders won’t force it. The shareholders won’t force it because they want the most money, and musk as CEO seems to be the best path, or at least not a problematic one.
As for how that can be, it gets into how absurd Tesla stock is in the first place. There was a period where Tesla’s market cap (total value of all shares) was higher than the entire rest of the auto industry combined. This was despite having no feasible path towards that level of production, and even growth in general wasn’t looking too hot.
“Tesla shareholders are money-hungry idiots” is what I got out of that. They are like Lenny…when shit goes south, they just keep holding on tight, no matter how much worse they make things, until next thing you know Curlys’s wife is dead.
(No offense meant to those with brain damage…the poor decisions they make are understandable and not their fault, of course. And I know that phenomenon isn’t unique to Tesla shareholders.)
I don’t know if this explains the entire price but we have all seen his securities fraud on Twitter.
There’s money to be made when you know a company is going to tank. In fact there are people who specialize in bankrupting companies. When rich people commit fraud they don’t get in trouble
Sunk cost fallacy.
He’s a hypocrite, and a piece of shit. Stop listening to him. Stop reading his tweets. Stop giving him any attention at all. He’s dirt under our boots and deserves nothing more.
I use a filter on Mastodon so I can limit how much Elon Musk headlines I see. People love to talk about him, I mean here we are…but at least with the filter I can tune out the noise most of the time. It’s blissful. A shame there’s no filters (that I know of) on Lemmy to hide asshats like this. I already know Musk is a POS, I don’t need to see a dozen articles every single day to remind me…
Good points! I’ll have to do the same on Mastodon.
Some of the Lemmy apps have keyword filters. I’m using Thunder, but I know some others have it too. No clue if there’s anything for desktop though.
Eternity, Boost, and Connect have a post filter option. Which client are you using? It’s Muted Words on Boost.
Gonna find out real quick that Apple is more important to people than Twitter.
Ah hah! But is it more important than X?!
Yes. Nobody gives a shit about X.
Wait is he banning Apple for employees or from the entire platform for users?
The former, unfortunately.
Unfortunately?
This doesn’t specify X, so it’s probably Tesla too, except I seriously doubt this threat is serious, because banning iPhone integration from Tesla, would probably hurt Tesla sales, and hurt Tesla and Musk 1000 times more than Apple.
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Me: Hates musk.
Also me: dislikes Apple.
Still me: See’s this story as Musk doing another stupid thing to kill more business on both ends.
Finally me: Yessss…this news pleases me.
What does he think, Apple is going to release a keynote tomorrow with Tim Cook saying “ah, my bad, Elon doesn’t like it so we’re rolling it back”. And if he blocks Apple devices from Viewing Xitter, they’ll finally move on to other platforms which will potentially cut his user base in half.
Can we make a global Lemmy compact to stop calling it Xitter and instead call it Shitter?
They’re the same word.
Shitter is an actual app on F-droid. It’s a mastodon client.
I can’t ignore the irony.
The X is pronounced Shi in Mandarin
So it is basically the same
I still call it Twitter. I refuse to call it anything with the letter X in it. That includes “X (formerly known as Twitter)”.
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I’m not gonna click the link (no hits for anything Elon), but the headline says he’s banning devices from his companies, so his employees will have to use anything but Apple…is what it sounds like.
He’s trying to bring attention to his ongoing campaign to show that OpenAI are somehow evil crooks that cheated him and are going to destroy the world. He projects much.
Please stop posting about every fart that asshole makes …
Please stop whining about it.
Do it. I dare you
This one is tricky, because Lemmy hates both Musk and AI.
Let them fight lol
Musk banning Apple devices with how popular iPhones are to use twitter would hurt Musk more than it would hurt either Apple or OpenAI so it just sounds like a win win.
He’s saying he’ll ban them from his company, like employees in offices. He’s not saying he’ll ban users from using Apple devices.
I can hate both things, and this move isn’t good for either one of them so I consider it an absolute win.
Lemmy seems to hate any new technology, I’ve noticed.
Personally I’ve found GPT to be extremely useful as a search engine replacement, especially the implementations that cite their sources. That way you can actually fact check instead of wondering if it’s a hallucination. It helps me rely on reddit a lot less to find answers. I love that it’s being integrated with Windows. Makes finding files a lot easier, even easier than using Everything search.
Lemmy also hates crypto. They call it a scam, despite the fact that it’s now being traded on the stock market (BTC and soon to be ETH). I turned $12k into $36k, just by buying small amounts of BTC every paycheck since COVID started. I buy everything with crypto; there are Visa debit cards you can use to spend it. Crypto gave me enough financial wiggle room that I no longer worry about losing my job. Yet it’s a “scam”. Give me a fucking break.
Lemmy hates HDR. Every time I mention the reason why I haven’t switched to Linux yet is because of poor HDR support in KDE, I get ridiculed. “Why would you want your monitor brighter and more colorful? Mine’s bright and colorful enough”, failing to realize just how much more realistic “brighter and more colorful” makes an image appear. With a proper 1000 nit OLED display, it feels more like looking out of a window than staring at a monitor. Like going from a black and white to color TV. One of those things that you can’t go back on once you get used to it.
And although not a new technology, per se don’t even get me started on how much Lemmy hates cars. But I feel like I’ve ranted on long enough so I’m just going to stop talking here before my inbox blows up.
I think I’ve mentioned the HDR issue in every comment I’ve made about my attempts to daily drive Linux, but I’ve never seen anyone get mad about it. It’s also not the make it or break it issue that’s keeping me from switching full-time though.
Most of the comments about HDR on Linux is
- “Yeah, that’s a weakness of Linux”
- “Yes, it’s being worked upon. Hope it comes soon”
- “Some distro X has partial support for it”
I’ve never seen anyone become mad, both on reddit and Lemmy
Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI competitor, xAI, whose first product, Grok, is meant to serve as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, Musk is founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunneling venture Boring Company.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
I think AI can be good its just being fumbled so hard right now
Are you saying Musk isn’t AI?
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Ah, they guy who tried to get Paypal to switch to running on Windows strikes again.
paypal deserves to run on windows
Both paths lead to the same destination inundated with AI ads and tracking.
I hate paypal because they’re transphobic.
See, I made a paypal account long after changing my legal name, and I made the account under my current legal name. They asked for a birth certificate to prove my identity, so I gave them one. I have an amended birth certificate from when I changed my name that lists both my deadname and my current legal name. When Paypal saw my birth certificate, they changed the name on my account to my deadname, even though the paperwork clearly stated it wasn’t my legal name. When I complained to them, they told me I had to submit change of name paperwork to change the name on my account. Well I never changed my name while I had a paypal account! They did! I just wanted it un-changed to what it was before. If I need to submit change of name paperwork to fix their mistake, why didn’t they need paperwork to change it away from my legal name in the first place?
Do it. Do a flip!
Pigeon CEO. Flies in, shits on everything, then flies out.
Or like the one at my house, takes up a roost in a hanging flowerpot and refuses to leave even when you take the flowerpot down to do planting.
(Yes, this is happening right now, no we did not disturb mama bird’s nest, no need to send in the feds.)
Musk has tantrum. Just another day ending in y.
But every day ends wi… oh. OH.
He’s pissing his pants because nobody will want to use Grok
Wait so will he ban Android because they have Gemini?
He has a vendetta against OpenAI as he tried to take it over and they wanted no part of that if I recall correctly
He was technically a founding member, but left the company. Literally all of this is because he’s jealous he can’t pull a Tesla and claim all the credit for another tech company.
Wait… that’s hilarious. He was part of openai? What kind of fucking idiot leaves that so early? I mean, maybe leaving this year for moral reasons… Sure. But he did this previously? What a fucking moron.
There was some internal dispute and he also claimed it was a conflict of interest with Tesla developing AI stuff. But I can’t imagine how any conflict that may have existed with OpenAI doesn’t exist with xAI
Here’s the story for those interested: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654701/openai-elon-musk-failed-takeover-report-closed-open-source
